Tweeting After Death? There’s an App for That

Oli Scarff/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — For those who feel their daily musings merit a global audience, there’s Twitter. But for those who feel the world couldn’t spin on without their 140-character pieces of genius if some tragedy should befall them, there’s an app called LivesOn.

The about-to-launch app sends “ghost tweets” from dead hosts’ accounts by using artificial intelligence to analyze pre-existing posts from a user’s feed and then posting what topics the deceased tweeter would likely post about, or which articles the users would send along to others.